It could be that I would have done even better under the old search engine but I haven’t uploaded anything new since the middle of August. My sales were dipping a touch and then picked up a good deal when the new engine came into play. I probably just cursed myself to zero sales for the next months lol

Hey UJ I’m pretty sure the new search system heavily heavily favors new items and particularly the ones that get a few sales right off the bat. So basically the more sales you get on a track and the longer it will try to hang on to good placements in search results. I had a track released about a week ago that has done pretty well so far with 14 sales and it is doing pretty good in search results but it is already starting to slip from the top spots in a lot of searches.

“Motivational” is probably one of the top 3 tags used on here so basically there are probably 100,000 tracks or so with a tag of motivational. I recently had a track released on October 29th this year that has a tag of “motivational” on it and I did a search for “motivational” and sorted by date. I had to go back 851 tracks deep to find that song!!! So basically with such a generic search you probably will be hard pressed to come up. However if you do Motivational with another related term to your tracks you will probably find a lot more success in the search results. For example my track I mentioned that has had a great start can’t really be found my putting just “motivational” but if I put “motivational rock” in the search I come up #7 in the list.

I think this new search system still needs A LOT of work to not only be fair to us authors but also to be relevant for the customers. Hopefully over time envato will really make it good but for now just keep your tags up to date with relevant search terms to your music and hopefully the customers will find them.

Revturkey said
Seems I just had a lucky week maybe with all the strange things I hear. That is weird UJ

Well apparently the search engine only went fully live on the 28th October so I don’t think last month can really be counted.

For all of October I had my best month so far…21 sales. In the first 9 days of November I have had exactly 0 sales! I’m hoping that it’s just a temporary lull but personally, after all my hard work this year, I’m very concerned that the new search engine is practically making me invisible!!

Sorry for the whinge, but this has come as an unexpected turn around to the moderately successful progress that I was making. No doubt, many others feel the same way. Still, let’s wait and see how things develop over the next couple of months.

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